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re: Need to Kill Time: What's a story that you've heard that still gives you chills
Posted on 12/24/13 at 12:07 pm to Circle K Beggar
Posted on 12/24/13 at 12:07 pm to Circle K Beggar
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I'm pretty sure Woke Up in Chicago is fake, but it is a riveting read nonetheless
Well yeah, but its awesome.
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Posted on 12/24/13 at 12:35 pm to LST
I was about 11 years old, me and a friend were sleeping on my trampoline in my back yard. He was fast asleep, but I was awake staring up into the night sky.
As I lay there, I hear some leaves rustling in the small patch of woods behind my house. It sounds like footsteps, a very clear pit-pat sound of two feet walking. I don't get up to look, I just lay and listen as the footsteps seem to get closer to my fence, then quite clearly jump over.
At this point I'm scared shitless and I close my eyes acting like I'm asleep. The steps get closer and closer until they are right next to the trampoline, then stop. Silence. Now I'm completely shitting myself, but I can't move, I still act as if I'm sleeping. The trampoline then begins to bounce up and down, like someone is pressing on it.
After a few seconds it stops and the footsteps trot away into the distance. I woke up my friend and asked if he felt it and he had no clue what I was talking about, he was fast asleep the whole time. We both ran inside after I told him.
To this day I don't know what it was, and nobody in my family has admitted to playing a joke on us. I would really like to know who, or what it was.
As I lay there, I hear some leaves rustling in the small patch of woods behind my house. It sounds like footsteps, a very clear pit-pat sound of two feet walking. I don't get up to look, I just lay and listen as the footsteps seem to get closer to my fence, then quite clearly jump over.
At this point I'm scared shitless and I close my eyes acting like I'm asleep. The steps get closer and closer until they are right next to the trampoline, then stop. Silence. Now I'm completely shitting myself, but I can't move, I still act as if I'm sleeping. The trampoline then begins to bounce up and down, like someone is pressing on it.
After a few seconds it stops and the footsteps trot away into the distance. I woke up my friend and asked if he felt it and he had no clue what I was talking about, he was fast asleep the whole time. We both ran inside after I told him.
To this day I don't know what it was, and nobody in my family has admitted to playing a joke on us. I would really like to know who, or what it was.
Posted on 12/24/13 at 1:16 pm to rintintin
Probably that damn Sasquatch.
Posted on 12/24/13 at 1:52 pm to WG_Dawg
I just spent about 2 hours reading Woke Up in Chicago. It could be a damn screenplay.
I was nervous everytime I opened a new picture.
I was nervous everytime I opened a new picture.
Posted on 12/24/13 at 2:05 pm to Wizard_of_Aahs
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Probably that damn Sasquatch.
Either that or some crackhead. Nor sure what would be more frightening.
Posted on 12/24/13 at 2:14 pm to rintintin
holy shite this thread is still alive
Posted on 12/24/13 at 2:22 pm to StealthCalais11
This one time my fat sister brought her fiancé home for Christmas....
Posted on 12/24/13 at 11:51 pm to DevilDogTiger
Just finished the Woke up in Chicago story. Good creepy story for xmas eve
Posted on 12/24/13 at 11:58 pm to boxcarbarney
frick y'all for bumping this thread on christmas eve. I'm never going to sleep tonight
Posted on 12/25/13 at 12:02 am to CottonWasKing
Posted on 12/25/13 at 12:06 am to boxcarbarney
I'VE GOT shite TO DO TODAY
Posted on 12/25/13 at 1:29 am to CottonWasKing
I've lived with night terrors my whole life. Every now and then I'll 'wake up' to an old lady in black at the foot of my bed or in the corner of the room. Been doing that for 40 years now. It's a primary reason I got a psych degree to be honest because I was never able to admit to seeing the things I've seen in that almost, but not quite asleep stage. And when I did, I thought I was insane. God I wish I'd just gotten therapy and not a fricking psych degree.
When I was a child the night terrors would manifest and my parents couldn't wake me up from it. There were times I was screaming and convulsing so bad they'd try to wake me by putting me in the shower. This got my mother thrown across the room by a five year old a couple of times. Scary, 'exorcist' type stuff.
As I've gotten older I learned to get more conscious control of them in the dream when they'd occur, which ultimately meant that the line between REM sleep and wakefulness would be blurred even further. So I'd be awake at some point, but still in the dream. So now whatever I'm dreaming is as real for me as the bed I'm in. And I'm awake. Which means I go from the dream of the old lady, or the rat in the bed, or the snake, or the gorilla or whatever the hell else my night terror consisted of in the dream, and I encounter it while and after becoming awake. And it's as real as anything else at that moment and absolutely terrifying for however many seconds it takes me to get control and realize I'm doing it again. Once I establish control and basically go, "Oh, night terror again so this isn't real" POOF it's gone. The adrenaline takes awhile to wear off but yeah. It's not fun while it's happening.
So I get how people think they see things in their bedrooms and are completely convinced they're real. They pretty much are at that point for you. You're experiencing it like it's a real thing at that moment, even if you have been there a thousand times.
I'm 46 years old now and I still encounter this stuff a few times a year. But it's become so familiar that any time I get a nightmare now, I take over pretty fast and pull myself out of it. But not always. And the hypnogogic hallucinations at that point are always scary as hell...
Till they aren't.
Then I go back to sleep.
When I was a child the night terrors would manifest and my parents couldn't wake me up from it. There were times I was screaming and convulsing so bad they'd try to wake me by putting me in the shower. This got my mother thrown across the room by a five year old a couple of times. Scary, 'exorcist' type stuff.
As I've gotten older I learned to get more conscious control of them in the dream when they'd occur, which ultimately meant that the line between REM sleep and wakefulness would be blurred even further. So I'd be awake at some point, but still in the dream. So now whatever I'm dreaming is as real for me as the bed I'm in. And I'm awake. Which means I go from the dream of the old lady, or the rat in the bed, or the snake, or the gorilla or whatever the hell else my night terror consisted of in the dream, and I encounter it while and after becoming awake. And it's as real as anything else at that moment and absolutely terrifying for however many seconds it takes me to get control and realize I'm doing it again. Once I establish control and basically go, "Oh, night terror again so this isn't real" POOF it's gone. The adrenaline takes awhile to wear off but yeah. It's not fun while it's happening.
So I get how people think they see things in their bedrooms and are completely convinced they're real. They pretty much are at that point for you. You're experiencing it like it's a real thing at that moment, even if you have been there a thousand times.
I'm 46 years old now and I still encounter this stuff a few times a year. But it's become so familiar that any time I get a nightmare now, I take over pretty fast and pull myself out of it. But not always. And the hypnogogic hallucinations at that point are always scary as hell...
Till they aren't.
Then I go back to sleep.
Posted on 12/25/13 at 1:34 am to faxis
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When I was a child the night terrors would manifest and my parents couldn't wake me up from it. There were times I was screaming and convulsing so bad they'd try to wake me by putting me in the shower. This got my mother thrown across the room by a five year old a couple of times. Scary, 'exorcist' type stuff
I dealt with this about once a month for 4 years with my exes son and it was just like you described. "Exorcist type stuff" is the PERFECT way to describe it. There is no worse feeling as a "parent", it broke my heart every time. I used to feel awful for him but when he finally snapped out of it he didn't know anything had happened.
This post was edited on 12/25/13 at 1:36 am
Posted on 12/25/13 at 1:39 am to lsu480
frick this god damn Wake up in chicago story.
frick frick frick frick frick.
I'm not even halfway through it yet.
Goddamn its going to be a long night
frick frick frick frick frick.
I'm not even halfway through it yet.
Goddamn its going to be a long night
Posted on 12/25/13 at 2:02 am to lsu480
When they're that age, they don't remember it usually. So while it looks bad, it's not really that bad on the kid. About all I can remember of the dreams from that period was a black horse stomping me out, which is probably simply the child coming up with night and mare and somehow tying it all together after the fact. And what ultimately later freaked me the hell out was the Metallica One video. Obviously I didn't have a premonition of the Metallica One video in the early seventies but the strobe thing stuck with me so when I saw that video that was what I related it to.
This post was edited on 12/25/13 at 2:22 am
Posted on 12/25/13 at 2:16 am to faxis
He has ZERO idea that they happen but damn it was traumatic to watch. If we could get him to drink sugar he would snap right out of it, like after 2 sips of a Capri Sun, but that was easier said than done when he was basically possessed. I really hated those nights but what I hate even more than that is that I am now not able to be there to take care of him when they happen.
Posted on 12/25/13 at 2:19 am to lsu480
Chances are he'll grow out of it. I'm a pretty rare case.
Posted on 12/25/13 at 2:38 am to faxis
Posted on 12/25/13 at 2:47 am to faxis
I raised him from 4-8 and the doctors all said he would probably be finished by 8-10. It still breaks by heart though knowing he may be going thru it without me there to help him out. I fricking love that kid so much. 
Posted on 12/25/13 at 2:58 am to lsu480
frick this thread and stumbling uopn it at fricking 230am
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